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Nelson Mandingo
Mar 27, 2005





I wrote a (knowingly) cheesy fanfic for giggles after being inspired by another poster in here. It's been pointed out that it's better to post things you've done. The problem is when I actually played my character through New Vegas I didn't actually Roleplay other than "Give Me Your Caps Or Else" and "Steal Everything Then Sell it For Big Money".

A while back I made a perfect Six String Samurai named Buddy http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Z05YB35EL._SL500_AA300_.jpg though, the problem is there is no Katana in the game like Fallout 3 so he never worked out.

Nelson Mandingo fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Sep 27, 2011

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TJChap2840
Sep 24, 2009

Knuc If U Buck posted:

There's a difference between role playing within a game and posting little monkey cheese stories about the characters lives. I guess I just don't "get" the humour.

I don't do any sense of role-playing other than play RPGs where I continue to not role-play and even I think you sound like a huge loving idiot.

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


I didn't realize I was reading the Nexus forums. (the fanfics are terrible, sorry).

Screenshots and gameplay stories are all right because it's poo poo I can go "that sounds fun, I'll try that" like the guy who stormed a fort with a .45 to reach his companions. Or the poster with the Clint Eastwood looking character who actually posts about the poo poo he does, those are p fun.

But background noir stories? Seriously?

My last character I played with a gimmick was an all guns, no repair, lockpick, or sciences who was an all around nice guy as long as:
- you don't try to take This Machine from him
- don't insult / give him any poo poo.

The second any of those happen, the conversation is over and I proceed to kill whoever pissed me off.

The casinos and Caesar's camp learned this lesson the hard way. Surprisingly, NCR never tried taking your weapon so I sided with them.

Honestly, I think I mostly ended killing everyone. Almost everyone, I'm sure.

One last thing. Earlier in the thread there was a quick discussion about powerleveling/quick starts. It mentioned collecting the snow globes for quick money but how do you get that first 2000 to enter Vegas? And what's the earliest you can do OWB's? Ideally I want to get the riot gear from the start of LR, The Sink, and This Machine or just Elijah's LAER again as early as possible.

Happy Noodle Boy fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Sep 27, 2011

Nelson Mandingo
Mar 27, 2005



You're right.

Astroturf Man
Nov 2, 2006
Falsifying grassroots support since 2006!

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

One last thing. Earlier in the thread there was a quick discussion about powerleveling/quick starts. It mentioned collecting the snow globes for quick money but how do you get that first 2000 to enter Vegas? And what's the earliest you can do OWB's? Ideally I want to get the riot gear from the start of LR, The Sink, and This Machine or just Elijah's LAER again as early as possible.

Savescum the gambling at the Atomic Wrangler. Or get around it entirely by entering via the monorail from Camp McCarran.

Yodzilla
Apr 29, 2005

Now who looks even dumber?

Beef Witch
Or pay that dude in Freeside 500 caps for a fake pass.

Stay Safe
Sep 1, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
To those wondering how to disable the HUD, you can easily do it by setting the transparency to full or something like that. It's in the display settings.

Wolfsheim
Dec 23, 2003

and god is on your side
dividing sparrows from the nightingales

Astroturf Man posted:

Savescum the gambling at the Atomic Wrangler. Or get around it entirely by entering via the monorail from Camp McCarran.

The best part about this is that the closest vendor to the monorail, Contreras, is the only one in the game who even sells NCR faction gear, and he does it at absurdly low prices. So just buy a set of NCR Trooper Armor for 32 caps and stroll leisurely past the monorail guards.

Roman
Aug 8, 2002

I'm not interested in reading extensive fanfiction but I hope people keep posting character screenshots (and a BRIEF backstory) because I enjoy seeing what goofy poo poo people come up with.

I guess my guy is kinda fanfiction-y but he was originally going to be a quest/companion mod at one point before I gave up because scripting is hard.

Stay Safe
Sep 1, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
How about this. To appease all the crybaby menchildren in here, let's shorten the backstory to a brief one and make stories out of screenshots.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/latisi/screenshot/576678597532270235?tab=public
http://steamcommunity.com/id/latisi/screenshot/576678597532271555/?tab=public
http://steamcommunity.com/id/latisi/screenshot/576678597532286599?tab=public
http://steamcommunity.com/id/latisi/screenshot/576678597532291776?tab=public

Akin to that. Linked because spoilers.

Stay Safe fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Sep 27, 2011

King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!
How about people just post something like "Courier Career Highlights" just briefly talking about one awesome thing they did as that character? Maybe they could also include other facts like "favorite food" or "favorite drug".

Hank Morgan
Jun 17, 2007

Light Along the Inverse Curve.

Yodzilla posted:

Or pay that dude in Freeside 500 caps for a fake pass.

Or just kill the drat Securitrons at the gate and loot the key from their wrecked shells.

BlackIronHeart
Aug 2, 2004

The Oath Breaker's about to hit warphead nine Kaptain!
Here's a story for you then. Once, during his stint as a hockey-masked mercenary, Jim punched a man so hard he got stuck in the ceiling.


(This is a little like the time when he banged a girl so hard her freckles came off.)

Astroturf Man
Nov 2, 2006
Falsifying grassroots support since 2006!

Wolfsheim posted:

The best part about this is that the closest vendor to the monorail, Contreras, is the only one in the game who even sells NCR faction gear, and he does it at absurdly low prices. So just buy a set of NCR Trooper Armor for 32 caps and stroll leisurely past the monorail guards.

Contreras is awesome. Only vendor in the game that sells ultrajet and he sells other good drugs and ammunition in great quantities. Or you can turn him into Lt Boyd and get precisely gently caress all as a reward.

Also who gives a poo poo if people are posting nerdy fanfics. I've already burnt ~190 hours of my life on this game so any chance of me pretending to be cool is basically shot to hell.

King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!
On that note, what are the best sources for lots of drugs in New Vegas? The Khans have gently caress-all despite being big drug suppliers (I helped them out and all I get in return is a handful of Med-X?), Dixon has a pathetic supply but plenty of cheap Jet, and that's about all I know. I've already raided the Fiend vault, unless there's another big Fiend encampment somewhere else.

Wolfsheim
Dec 23, 2003

and god is on your side
dividing sparrows from the nightingales

Tewratomeh posted:

How about people just post something like "Courier Career Highlights" just briefly talking about one awesome thing they did as that character? Maybe they could also include other facts like "favorite food" or "favorite drug".

And maybe "turn-ons" and "turn-offs"?

I think the whole fanfic thing is a fine line. Its interesting seeing people's different couriers, and hearing about their in-game exploits like "I killed my way to freedom at the Fort with A Light Shining In Darkness" or "I took every drug known to man, walked up to the alpha deathclaw and punched off his head in one go" is pretty neat, because its actually happening in the game. Its the stuff like "Hammy McGriddles walked at a leisurely pace through Freeside, unaware of what the night held for him..." where it starts to be a bit much.

I mean, I'm pretty OCD about roleplaying in games like these and defining my characters goals and motivations/etc, but I'm not going to be posting it online anymore than my kawaii Garrus fanart.

Real gameplay question: does anyone know how low your NCR rep can be before saving the president is off the table? I want to do a perfect House run and I know he asks you to do it, but last time I was at 'Wild Child' and he said they wouldn't let me anywhere near him. I'm currently at 'Shunned' because I was doing the Unfriendly Persuasions quest and I couldn't resist taking Marcus' 2500 caps to pay off the mercenaries, then killing them anyway and selling the loot (GRA is out today, I need the caps).

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


Astroturf Man posted:

Or you can turn him into Lt Boyd and get precisely gently caress all as a reward.

Turning him in is the easiest way to get This Machine plus he's a bit of a dick so good riddance.

rope kid
Feb 3, 2001

Warte nur! Balde
Ruhest du auch.

Wolfsheim posted:

Real gameplay question: does anyone know how low your NCR rep can be before saving the president is off the table? I want to do a perfect House run and I know he asks you to do it, but last time I was at 'Wild Child' and he said they wouldn't let me anywhere near him. I'm currently at 'Shunned' because I was doing the Unfriendly Persuasions quest and I couldn't resist taking Marcus' 2500 caps to pay off the mercenaries, then killing them anyway and selling the loot (GRA is out today, I need the caps).
I think if your combined NCR rep is anywhere on the "mixed" axis (Mixed, Unpredictable, Wild Child) or negative (Shunned, Smiling Troublemaker, Hated, Sneering Punk, Vilified, Merciful Thug, Soft-Hearted Devil) it's off the table.

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
can't you always just fire a gun the instant he walks out of his chopper and trigger him to flee?

Nelson Mandingo
Mar 27, 2005



Tewratomeh posted:

How about people just post something like "Courier Career Highlights" just briefly talking about one awesome thing they did as that character? Maybe they could also include other facts like "favorite food" or "favorite drug".

I can think of a pretty good one. My latest playthrough I've decided to ally myself with the NCR.

On confronting Mr. House I foolishly upgraded the Securitrons earlier in the game. I decided not to use my Ranger Sequioa on the Trons because I didn't want to cheese the fight. Equipping my All American, I take the elevator up to the penthouse and start engaging the Securitons. It dawns on me however that it's going to take a lot more bullets than I thought to take them out, and they're doing a surprising bit of damage to me with their upgraded weapons.

Ducking behind cover, it dawns on me that I recently found a China Lake grenade launcher and put a lot of points into Explosives to use it. This is the perfect moment to test it out. Equipping it I proceeded to wonton slaughter the Securitrons in the building. It was an incredibly satisfying feeling, shooting a grenade at them, watching them recoil from the explosion, pumping the grenade launcher like a shotgun and finishing them with a second shot before they manage to recover.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596940431046974459/95AC73292AC399A7CA158C3B57143F304C378C83/ Me running through an explosion shooting my grenade launcher.

I reached Mr. House's chamber and slowly limping towards the console for dramatic effect, I activated it.
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596940431046976522/60E925C01301DB1BCD4E5126F5A32F52DDA85CC7/

He asked me why I did this. It took me a moment to choose my response. "I just don't like you." was my reply. Stepping back from the console I took out my new favorite weapon and sent Mr. House off in a spectacular slow motion finish.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596940431046973842/5FD1B8E0E125295BF255609E5015213E57F7CC9E/

The poor guy's body was intact, but his legs were nowhere to be found.

Wolfsheim
Dec 23, 2003

and god is on your side
dividing sparrows from the nightingales

rope kid posted:

I think if your combined NCR rep is anywhere on the "mixed" axis (Mixed, Unpredictable, Wild Child) or negative (Shunned, Smiling Troublemaker, Hated, Sneering Punk, Vilified, Merciful Thug, Soft-Hearted Devil) it's off the table.

Follow-up question: does your NCR rep go to neutral when you speak to Crocker, or when that nerd outside the Lucky 38 tells you to go talk to Crocker?

Isaacs Alter Ego
Sep 18, 2007


So, I took Cass with me to Benny. I took his suit for the charisma bonus, but didn't really want to lug it around when I didn't need it. So I gave it to Cass to hold on to. This is what happens immediately after.



She does have a convincing argument.

Also, I recently beat Lonesome Road...anyone else really disappointed by it? I was expecting something really profound, and instead got some philosophy 101 lectures.

Stay Safe
Sep 1, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Isaacs Alter Ego posted:

So, I took Cass with me to Benny. I took his suit for the charisma bonus, but didn't really want to lug it around when I didn't need it. So I gave it to Cass to hold on to. This is what happens immediately after.



She does have a convincing argument.

Also, I recently beat Lonesome Road...anyone else really disappointed by it? I was expecting something really profound, and instead got some philosophy 101 lectures.

Great screenshot!

It was a little anticlimatic for me, because I took dialogue options to make Ulysses not fight me/die. I bet if I choose the other option and have an epic showdown, maybe.

All in all I am glad I didn't kill him. Now he just chills on a cliff.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/latisi/screenshot/577809135318740187?tab=public

Astfgl
Aug 31, 2001

The Fallout wiki has failed me, so does anyone know a good list of all the places in Puesta/Salida del Sol where you can deactivate or reroute the Cloud using fans and ventilation shafts?

juggalo baby coffin
Dec 2, 2007

How would the dog wear goggles and even more than that, who makes the goggles?


I changed my courier to have the lobomite skin when I did OWB, now I just use the whole thing going wrong as an excuse to punch people to death all the time.

Astroturf Man
Nov 2, 2006
Falsifying grassroots support since 2006!

Tewratomeh posted:

On that note, what are the best sources for lots of drugs in New Vegas? The Khans have gently caress-all despite being big drug suppliers (I helped them out and all I get in return is a handful of Med-X?), Dixon has a pathetic supply but plenty of cheap Jet, and that's about all I know. I've already raided the Fiend vault, unless there's another big Fiend encampment somewhere else.

The Sierra Madre Vending machine: Buffout, Mentats, Steady, Med-X, Rad-X, Radaway

Contreras: Ultrajet, Jet, Psycho

Not sure of good sources beyond that. I just generally do a tour of all the merchants that sell chems every few days and aim to have enough to keep me off my face constantly.

Isaacs Alter Ego
Sep 18, 2007


Dead Man Posting posted:

Great screenshot!

It was a little anticlimatic for me, because I took dialogue options to make Ulysses not fight me/die. I bet if I choose the other option and have an epic showdown, maybe.

All in all I am glad I didn't kill him. Now he just chills on a cliff.


Well, I ended up killing him straight up after a short conversation. I never understood what the hell he was talking about with all the "you brought life here and then killed it" stuff. I guess the fact that the "consequences" you're facing are for something that's never actually shown or even adequately explained bothered me.

Maybe I just got my hopes up too much, though. With all the building up to Ulysses, I was expecting some amazing lines that brought everything you did into question, some kind of amazing reveal like Planescape or something.

J Bjelke-Postersen
Sep 16, 2007

I have a 6 point plan to stop the boats.....or turn them around or something....No wait what were those points again....Are there really 6?
Cleaning out the Sierra Madre and buying a lifetime supply of buffout and stimpacks is the only way to play. Thanks Luck 10!

rope kid
Feb 3, 2001

Warte nur! Balde
Ruhest du auch.

Wolfsheim posted:

Follow-up question: does your NCR rep go to neutral when you speak to Crocker, or when that nerd outside the Lucky 38 tells you to go talk to Crocker?
Technically your negative NCR rep component is set to 0, which can turn a mixed rep into a positive rep overall. I'm not sure exactly when it happens. Sorry.

Astroturf Man
Nov 2, 2006
Falsifying grassroots support since 2006!

rope kid posted:

Technically your negative NCR rep component is set to 0, which can turn a mixed rep into a positive rep overall. I'm not sure exactly when it happens. Sorry.

Does this ever happen with Caesar's legion (ie does getting the Mark of Caesar reset your negative legion rep to 0)?

rope kid
Feb 3, 2001

Warte nur! Balde
Ruhest du auch.

Yes, I believe they work the same way.

Astroturf Man
Nov 2, 2006
Falsifying grassroots support since 2006!
Awesome. Caesar's legion is going to get nuked so loving hard.

J Bjelke-Postersen
Sep 16, 2007

I have a 6 point plan to stop the boats.....or turn them around or something....No wait what were those points again....Are there really 6?
I'm starting to feel a bit guilty about brutally murdering every faction in the game that didn't have something tangible to offer my utopian New Vegas. Basically not offering something tangible has gone from originally being hostile or morally offensive to being vaguely threatening to having a heart beat.

This thousand year robot reich had better be worth all the heart ache.

I just saved the president and as his vertibird left I killed all the NCR present. They were cowering, I shot them in the back with A Light Shining in the Darkness one by one. What have I become, I just wanted to make a little money in the beginning. How did it come to this!?

J Bjelke-Postersen fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Sep 27, 2011

poptart_fairy
Apr 8, 2009

by R. Guyovich
I was sad when I learned you couldn't upload yourself into a Securiton.

Or a Liberty Prime. :black101:

Isaacs Alter Ego
Sep 18, 2007


J Bjelke-Postersen posted:

I'm starting to feel a bit guilty about brutally murdering every faction in the game that didn't have something tangible to offer my utopian New Vegas. Basically not offering something tangible has gone from originally being hostile or morally offensive to being vaguely threatening to having a heart beat.

This thousand year robot reich had better be worth all the heart ache.

I just saved the president and as his vertibird left I killed all the NCR present. They were cowering, I shot them in the back with A Light Shining in the Darkness one by one. What have I become, I just wanted to make a little money in the beginning. How did it come to this!?

I do this in most of my saves. I think it's easier to do it because all the factions are pretty gray (besides the legion), and since everyone pretty much just uses you to do all the dirty work, it's really tempting to just tell them to shove off and murder your way to an independent paradise.

I've never been able to bring myself to try and side with one of the factions, honestly. I tried on my recent playthrough to side with House... then people started calling me a puppet and House got all snooty, and that was the end of that. Yes Man is just so irresistibly chipper.

J Bjelke-Postersen
Sep 16, 2007

I have a 6 point plan to stop the boats.....or turn them around or something....No wait what were those points again....Are there really 6?
My current endgame is pretty much ED-E picking up the robot times and bringing it to me while I sit on the Lucky 38 steps in a rocking chair spinning my .45 with Cass inside making me some lemonade pumped full of Jet.

Akalies
May 31, 2000
The courier that really clicked for me was my aging pro-NCR John Wayne run. I tried to play something between his Rooster Cogburn, and his "Big Glory" WW2 characters. I stayed loyal to my country, but tried to keep it on the right path. I also didn't take poo poo from anyone. Except Raul, my unfaithful manservant.

I don't want to get too fanfic here, but instead explain why this is my favorite game of all time. I wanted to play a old man who'd been in battle his entire life, and was rapidly falling apart. I wanted to feel like each summit climbed was a challenge. I wanted to tell people to eat a bag of poo poo when they were wasting my time, or trying to wrong something I cared about. For the most part New Vegas never let me down. I rarely felt railroaded into choosing something other than what I felt my character would naturally do, and was often surprised by the options presented to me. That's a great game.

There are things I'd love to have seen done better (low intelligence dialogue, bigger/better set pieces), but I understand the financial/time limitations of game development.

I'm more pleased with this game than any other, and New Vegas will always be The Grand Adventure In The Mojave to me. I hope Obsidian is given the opportunity to do another, and that if/when Bethesda does the next game they take a long hard look at what Obsidian did right.

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Akalies fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Sep 27, 2011

Dr. Abysmal
Feb 17, 2010

We're all doomed
I was able to talk to Ulysses about the demise of Mr. House, am I correct in assuming that he has additional dialog if you kill Caesar as well?

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours

Fag Boy Jim posted:

can't you always just fire a gun the instant he walks out of his chopper and trigger him to flee?

I think the problem is that he might not be wearing faction armor, or something?

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Orange Crush Rush
May 7, 2009

You don't need thumbs for revenge
So does everything added in GRA just bought from Vendors or can you find poo poo out in the wastes or on people as well?

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